| Acronym | Meaning |
| OBK2 | Second-order Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers |
| CAB | Core And Bond (molecular Partitioning Method) |
| HSAB | Hard And Soft Acids And Bases |
| FOREGS | Forum Of European Geological Surveys |
| GBM | Glomerular Basement Membrane |
| MTES | Metastable Transfer Emission Spectroscopy |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| QPA | Quantitative Phase Analysis |
| VPA | Varied Portions Approach |
| DEPT | Distortionless Enhancement By Polarization Transfer |